Scholars, Practitioners, and Leaders in Religion Respond to Contemporary Events

Author: Mobashra Tazamal

Mobashra Tazamal is a Senior Research Fellow at The Bridge Initiative. She received her Masters in Islamic Societies and Cultures from SOAS, University of London. Her work and commentary on U.S. politics and anti-Muslim sentiment has been published on Middle East Eye, al-Araby al-Jadeed, The Tempest, and The Muslim Internationalist.

Muslims are human and, honestly, it’s heartbreaking that I have to write this sentence. But I have to, because inconsistencies in media coverage beg me to ask the question, is my identity only important when it fulfills a preconceived biased narrative? Apparently so, as a recent academic study revealed that “terror attacks receive five times more media coverage” in cases where the perpetrator is Muslim. In these instances, media provides round the clock presentation of attacks but when Muslims are the victims, there’s a deafening…Continue Reading “Because Muslims Are Victims, Too”→